Pingyao ancient city, once the richest ancient town, is called "every cloud has a silver lining" because it is too poor.

In Pingyao County, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province. There is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,800 years, called Pingyao Ancient City. This is one of the best preserved ancient cities. It is said that Liu Bowen left a treasure here.

The ancient city of Pingyao covers an area of about 2.25 square kilometers, with a wall circumference of 6 163 meters and a height of 12 meters. The whole ancient city of Pingyao is like a little puss-head protecting itself, which also means that a city is protecting its people. The turtle's tail is the north gate, and its four legs are also four gates, so Pingyao ancient city is also called "turtle city".

There are four streets and eight small streets in Pingyao city. Seen from a height, 72 Hutong looks like the lines on a turtle and a huge gossip town. Miraculously, the road and the road here are connected and extend in all directions.

In the ancient city, there is a "People's Hall" which is the most completely preserved ancient county government at present. There are a little more people in the middle, probably to show that they want to be more close to the people. Walking here, it seems to have passed through the feeling of Grandpa Ascension Church in Guxian County. There are three doors in the county government, one is called Death Gate, which is for dead prisoners, the other is called People Gate, which is for ordinary people, and the middle is called Instrument Gate. The ancient county government maintained its original style, including information sticks, kneeling stones and clamping sticks. "The imperial system has long been abolished, and the county government is still there." I believe that the county grandfather never imagined that it had become a tourist attraction and a place for people to visit.

West Street used to be the most fashionable financial street in China. China has its first bank, Rishengchang. Before there were banks, silver was transported by escort agencies, which was risky and costly. This also allowed interested businessmen to see business opportunities, so they opened Rishengchang Bank in various places. As a result, Rishengchang was a great success, and semicolons were opened all over the country, even in Europe and America.

There must be a bank in the bank. In the center of this wealth, there is an underground money house. People who come to withdraw money withdraw their cash through Jinjing, just like the cash machine now. It is said that there is also a dragon wood in Liu Bowen in the cellar. Because of this longmu, Pingyao ancient city can last for thousands of years.

In addition to the golden well, there is also a Wanji well with a relatively large diameter, which is also connected by a secret passage and leads directly to the county government. It is estimated that it was a secret way for a county grandfather to escape.

On the central axis of the whole ancient city, there is a city god temple, which faces south. This temple is a typical style of China Taoist Temple. There are memorial archways, mountain gates, city god temples, verandahs, wings, etc., which make people feel that they have both the characteristics of temples and the style of lawsuit rooms, especially the glass on the roof, which is the original work of the Qing Dynasty. After a hundred years of wind and rain, it is still so colorful.

There are three treasures in Pingyao ancient city, and the rammed earth ancient city wall is one of them. Since the expansion of the Ming Dynasty, after more than 600 years of wind and frost, the city wall is still magnificent, about 6 kilometers, with 3000 battlements and 72 watchtowers. There is also a Kuixing Pavilion in the southeast corner, which symbolizes the literary prosperity and the charm of "Kuixing points to fight and take the lead" in the hearts of the ancients.

The second treasure is Zhenguo Temple, which has a history of more than 1000 years, and its colorful sculptures and sculptures are all treasures.

The third treasure is Shuanglin Temple, where there are more than 2,000 colored clay sculptures from Yuan Dynasty to Ming Dynasty, which is called "treasure house of colored sculpture art".

Of course, there are many treasures in Pingyao ancient city. If it is a big ancient city, I can't express these words clearly. And this once richest place, perhaps you will never think that Pingyao ancient city can be preserved completely up to now because it is "too poor". In the 1950s, the economic development here became slow, and the local government was too poor to build houses and repair roads, so the ancient city was basically not greatly damaged. This should be regarded as every dark cloud has a glimmer of hope. Now it has become an AAAAA-level tourist attraction and the second batch of national historical and cultural cities.

Every brick and tile in the ancient city is so heavy, as if telling the world about the wind and frost it has experienced. The ancient city has left its secrets in time, and you are its long-awaited explorer. Approach it, understand it, feel it, and finally share it.

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